"Greek police routinely
lock up unaccompanied children in small, overcrowded, and unhygienic
cells for weeks and months, Human Rights Watch said in a new
report released today.

The 27-page report, Why Are You Keeping Me Here?:
Unaccompanied Children Detained in Greece, documents arbitrary
and prolonged detention of children in violation of international
and Greek law. Children are held in unsanitary conditions, sometimes
with unrelated adults, in police stations and detention centers
where they have little access to basic care and services. The
report is based on interviews with 42 children who were or had
been detained, as well as visits to two police stations and two
detention centers in mainland Greece."

"FOR weeks the
voluntary repatriation centre run by the United Nations on the
outskirts of Peshawar has been besieged by trucks laden with
Afghan refugees and their worldly possessions. Inside the compound
hundreds of men, children and burqa-clad women wait bad-temperedly
in the sun to complete the achingly slow formalities of leaving
Pakistan, a country that has hosted legions of displaced Afghans
since the Soviet Union invaded Afghanistan in 1979, but now wants
to be rid of them."

"Greek and Bulgarian
police are to start joint patrols along the Greek-Bulgarian and
Bulgarian-Turkish borders in a bid to prevent undocumented migrants
from continuing their journeys via the so-called Balkan Route."

"An unknown group
calling itself the Lone Wolves of Radical, Autonomous, Militant
National Socialism has claimed responsibility for an arson attack
last week on an abandoned building being used a squat for refugees
on Notara Street in Exarchia, downtown Athens."

"164 refugees landed
to Greek islands today. Volunteers from Chios have reported three
boats with 16, 42 and 45 persons this morning, but the government
has only registered the boat with 45 people. According to official
numbers, additional 61 people have arrived to Lesvos."

Support groups for LGBT
refugees in Greece

"LGBT refugees
are one of the most vulnerable groups, but often not recognised
as such. News
That Moves
has bundled a list of groups working with LGBT individuals, including
umbrella organisation OLKE, Geeek Transgender Association and
Colour Youth for young refugees."

FRANCE: Serious food
shortage in overpopulated Calais

"Our colleague
Rando Wagner has published a report from Calais camp, warning
that both Belgian and Malaysian kitchen desperately need rice,
tinned tomatoes, chick peas, cooking oil and milk in order to
feed up to 10,000 refugees. As result, many are left without
their daily meal."

"as of September
6, 1,975 were hosted in Polykastro (Nea Kavala), down from 2,378
on August 16 and 3,682 on August 5. The capacity of Nea Kavala
is 4,200.

This is not part of
an organized transfer by the government. Rather, people are leaving
the sites on their own, the Coordinating Body for the Refugee
Crisis Management confirmed to News That Moves. The Coordinating
Body estimates that as many as 8,000 migrants and refugees self-settled
on mainland Greece and are living outside organized sites and
camps. That number is up from 2,200 on August 5."

"Over 1,000 refugees
were rescued from sinking boats just under 20 kilometers off
the coast of Libya in a rescue mission that lasted more than
three hours. Refugees were found on dinghies, and some were carrying
as much as 160 people.

A Migrant Offshore Aid
Station (MOAS) rescue boat was radioed by the Italian Coast Guard
early Monday morning.

Of the 1,000 refugees
were three babies. Marco Cauchi, the MOAS Onboard Operations
Officer, said Today it was intense for the fact the rubber
boats were jam-packed they put as many people as they can
they put in 160 people it was incredible.

These boats are
built to only take 100 people. It was dangerously loaded,
he said. People were jumping out, fumes were coming up,
people were fainting, so it was horrible."

"Over one hundred
refugees and migrants have entered Greece by sea over the past
24 hours, the Athens-Macedonian news agency said on Thursday.
According to the agency, 106 people reached islands in the northern
Aegean."

"Greek authorities
have no plans for opening or building new sites on the islands
to decongest the camps because many people gradually leave to
the mainland for their asylum procedures, the governmental Coordinating
Body for the Refugee Crisis Management told News That Moves.

There will be no massive
and organized transfer of people from the islands to the mainland,
a Coordinating Body spokesperson said, noting that authorities
are still building smaller long-term camps on the mainland.

More than 12,500
people who crossed to Greece after March 20 are now hosted in
sites on the Greek islands, according to official data. The capacity
of organized sites on the islands is 7,450.

Yesterday, the mayor
of Lesvos asked for the transfer of a large number of people
from the island to mainland Greece, describing the situation
on the islands as particularly worrying and dangerous.
More than 5,800 are hosted in Lesvos, where the capacity of
organized sites is 3,500." [emphasis added]

"Greek and Bulgarian
police are to start joint patrols along the Greek-Bulgarian and
Bulgarian-Turkish borders in a bid to prevent undocumented migrants
from continuing their journeys via the so-called Balkan Route....

A Greek Police official
involved in the planning for the joint patrols told Kathimerini
that both Greece and Bulgaria have come under European pressure
to thwart migrants and refugees who entered Greece from Turkey
and aim to continue on to Central and Western Europe."

"In this case study,
Pakistan was selected as the country of departure, with Turkey
chosen as a transit country and Greece as the country of first
entry to the EU. This case study covers the land border from
Pakistan to Turkey, as well as the sea border from Turkey to
Greece. It focuses on the Eastern Mediterranean land and sea
routes....

Smuggling along this
route is not organised by mafia type organisations, but rather
more horizontal networks, which enables flexibility and poses
particular challenges for apprehending migrant smugglers...."

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